Our most recent commentary focuses on governance of listed company subsidiaries, quality of internal audit, strengthening voting processes, ESG integration and systemic risk.

ICGN is pleased to respond to the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) consultation on its Proposed Revision of the UK stewardship Code.

ICGN responds to the European Union's consultation on non-binding guidelines on non-financial reporting.

ICGN is supportive of the US SEC's request for rulemaking on ESG disclosure.

Following our Viewpoint: "Quarterly reporting: Too much of a good thing"  (published September 2018) ICGN's Disclosure and Transparency Committee is pleased to share further views on earnings releases and quarterly reports in a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 

ICGN’s latest statement to Council responsible for Japan’s investor stewardship and corporate governance reforms. 

ICGN response to a public consultation in the Netherlands on a draft bill regarding the introduction of a response time of a maximum of 250 days that can be invoked by the executive board of a Dutch listed company. 

It is clear that the Commission gave considerable, and fresh, thinking to the amended Kodex, and we applaud the spirit of starting with principles and building a more concise code that is relevant for German companies and reflects international corporate governance standards. However our submission outlines some of out potential concerns and possible recommendations to alleviate these concerns. 

The winners of the first Global Stewardship Awards, recognising excellence and innovation in investor stewardship were announced at a ceremony in London on 4th December. 

ICGN is pleased to launch our 2018 Yearbook - filled with a range of articles produced by influential figures from around the globe. Including: Angel Gurría, Trevor Philips, Deepa Raval, Rients Abma, Vaness Knapp, Alice Mathew, Nandini Sukumar, Barbara Novick, Hiro Mizuno, Lynne Paine, Joseph Bower, Sarah Wilson and more. Please note, the Yearbook is exclusive to ICGN Members. 

ICGN is pleased to present our Policy Priorities for 2019. These complement our core policy documents — the ICGN Global Governance Principles and Global Stewardship Principles. These policy priorities seek to establish an overarching frame of reference to guide ICGN policy work and policy committees. 

ICGN and PRI are pleased to release a joint paper covering the investor agenda for corporate ESG reporting. A group of leading global investor organisations convened to address open questions relating to corporate ESG reporting to provide guidance and an investor perspective to the Corporate Reporting Dialogue and its members.  This Paper presents the preliminary outputs from the group on a range of ESG reporting issues, identifying points of consensus and division. 

ICGN and PRI teamed up to produce the report: Investor Agenda for Corporate Reporting. This report is now available in Turkish: Yatırımcıların Şirketlerin ÇSY(ESG)* Raporlamasına İlişkin Gündemi

It has come to our attention that the Belgian government intends to introduce in the Belgian parliament new legislation allowing listed companies to adopt double voting rights through loyalty shares. We believe that this is a seriously flawed tactic with unintended consequences, and discourage legislative initiatives to introduce loyalty shares in Belgium.

This Viewpoint explores all aspects of the anti-competitive debate linked to Common Ownership - exploring the potential problem, implications of the debate, institutional practice and evidence. ICGN believes that this challenge to common ownership is ill-founded, and lacking in both an understanding of institutional investment practice and clear evidence - read to explore why.

Investec Asset Management is the latest ICGN Member to publicly endorse our Global Stewardship Principles. Over 40 investors from around the world are listed on the ICGN website to signify joint standards of stewardship policies and practices.